Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>
* Package name : tea4cups
Version : 3.13~alpha1+svn3565
Upstream Author : Jerome Alet <alet@librelogiciel.com>
* URL : http://www.pykota.com/software/tea4cups
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: Python
Description : The Swiss Army's knife of advanced CUPS administrators
Tea4CUPS is a CUPS backend wrapper which can capture print datas before they
are sent to a printer and process, duplicate or dispatch them in a number of
ways.
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Tea4CUPS is the Swiss Army's knife of the advanced CUPS administrator, and
can easily replace or extend most of the existing specialized CUPS backends
(pdf, email, ftp, etc...).
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You are greatly encouraged to use this software instead of writing your own
CUPS backends: Tea4CUPS will let you plug your own scripts, filters, tools,
or commands wherever you want, while giving them access to all the print
job's characteristics in a consistent way.
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Tea4CUPS makes all information about the current print job, in particular the
job's datas and attributes, available to your own commands through environment
variables.
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The possibilities are endless:
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- Your own commands can optionally decide to discard the current print job
instead of printing it.
- Send the same job to several printers at the same time, which is not possible
with CUPS.
- Automate the PDF archiving of all print jobs.
- Forbid duplicate print jobs (a simple example is shown in the sample
configuration file)
- Easily create a print accounting solution.